MarvaL
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
MarvaL is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from OFr merveille "the marvel"; first attested Richard Merveyle 1275 RH (C).
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 72K
- CLChile≈1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OFr merveille "the marvel"; first attested Richard Merveyle 1275 RH (C)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
MarvaL counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #432 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | MarvaL | 50 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | MarvaL | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 218 | 1 in 971K | 218 | MarvaL | 24 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | MarvaL | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 172 | 1 in 291K | 172 | MarvaL | 33 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 81 | 1 in 132K | 81 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 47 | 1 in 72K | 47 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
MarvaL is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Marval (a city in Haute-Vienne department, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adolph Emile Marvalb. 1845AUFrench-Australian teacher and art dealer
- Wilhelm von Marvalb. 1861DEMajor general of Württemberg
- Alice Marvalb. 1865English doctor and missionary
- Jacqueline Marvalb. 1866FRFrench painter (1866-1932)
- Rosmeri Marvalb. 1991VEVenezuelan actress, model and dancer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 218 | #34,270 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 172 | #18,486 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 172 | #18,468 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 81 | #20,046 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 81 | #8,520 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 47 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name MarvaL mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr merveille "the marvel"; first attested Richard Merveyle 1275 RH (C) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does MarvaL have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named MarvaL in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled MarvaL.
- How common is the name MarvaL?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 218 people named MarvaL, about 1 in 971 thousand residents.
- How common is MarvaL compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, MarvaL is the 432nd most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marvalThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “MarvaL” — the 432nd most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.